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Searchers have found four more debris fields from an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean early Monday with 228 people on board, the Brazilian Air Force say.

Please pray for the families of the people that were on board of flight 447. May God comfort them and help them with this tragic loss. It’s hard to believe and accept it when there’s no clear view of what happened in those final moments. Dre

CNN – Three commercial ships were expected to arrive Tuesday at an Atlantic Ocean debris field that may be connected to an Air France jet that disappeared Monday with 228 people on board, Brazilian aviation officials said.

Earlier Tuesday, searchers found an airplane seat, an orange life vest, small white fragments, an oil drum and signs of oil and kerosene about 700 kilometers (435 miles) northeast of the Fernando de Noronha archipelago, said Brazilian Air Force spokesman Jorge Amaral.

There was not enough material to officially say it is wreckage from Flight 447, Amaral said.

The debris was found 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of the plane’s expected flight path, another Brazilian Air Force official said.

Fernando de Noronha is an archipelago of 21 islands around 355 kilometers (220 miles) off the northeast coast of Brazil.

An earlier report by a crew from the Brazilian airline TAM, who said they saw “shiny spots” in the sea along the route of Flight 447, also prompted a search in the territorial waters off the African nation of Senegal.

Senegal is northeast of Fernando de Noronha and also near the plane’s presumed flight path.

The Airbus A330 encountered heavy turbulence early Monday, about three hours after beginning what was supposed to be an 11-hour flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, France, according to Air France CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon.

CNN – Brazilian and French rescue teams continued to search Tuesday for the passengers of an Air France jet that disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean as details of Flight 447 began to emerge.

The Airbus A330 encountered heavy turbulence about 02:15 a.m. local time Monday (10:15 p.m. ET Sunday), some three hours after the jet carrying 228 people left Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for Paris, France, on an 11-hour flight, according to Air France CEO Pierre-Henri Gourgeon.

At that point, the plane’s automatic system initiated a four-minute exchange of messages to the company’s maintenance computers, indicating “several pieces of aircraft equipment were at fault or had broken down,” he told reporters.

During that time, there was no contact with the crew, Gourgeon said. “It was probable that it was a little bit after those messages that the impact of the plane took place in the Atlantic,” he added. The Airbus A330 was off radar and probably closer to Brazil than to Africa at the time, he said.

Two squadrons from Brazil’s air force launched a search near the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha in the Atlantic Ocean, about 225 miles (365 kilometers) from Brazil’s coast, an air force spokesman told CNN. And French President Nicolas Sarkozy said France sent ships and planes to the area about 250 miles (400 kilometers) from Brazil. ”Our Spanish friends are helping us, Brazilians are helping us a lot as well,” he said.

The Brazilian air force received a report that a flight crew from the Brazilian airline TAM reported seeing “shiny spots” in the sea on the route of Flight 447. Senegalese authorities were notified about the sighting in their airspace, but a ship searched the area without result. 

Among the passengers were 126 men, 82 women, seven children and a baby, in addition to the 12 crew members, Air France said.